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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Photographs (illustratore). 1st Edition. The young boy grew up in a dream world. Hollywood rajahs brooded in their Spanish-style palaces while millions eagerly awaited their next celluloid pronouncement. Stutz Bearcats and Rolls-Royces sailed down Hollywood Boulevard, their riders clad in silks and satins, trailing clouds of mink in the faces of their police escorts. Mock gun battles and lunatic Keystone Cops chases took place in the streets, and over it all hung the dust of unpaved roads and the sweet, pervasive aroma of orange blossoms. Jesse Lasky, Jr., is the son of one of Hollywood's greatest pioneers, and his childhood and adolescence were spent in an era that was as fabulous (and is now as extinct) as the Roman Empire under Nero. With honesty and gusto and in a wealth of anecdotes, Lasky tells of these halcyon days and the Empire's decline and fall, when the stock market crashed, ushering in the hungry thirties, and his father was wiped out overnight. From being the pampered son of one of Hollywood's most powerful men, Lasky was forced to take a job in a hack studio churning out âBâ movies. There he enjoyed a brief moment of glory when Jean Harlow, then at the height of her fabulous career, "adopted" him on the rebound of her broken romance with screen smoothie William Powell. Lasky records his years of struggle to achieve success as a screenwriter. His boyhood friendships with the greats and near-greats were of no use to him at all, proving the old axiom that you can be forgotten in Hollywood if you take time out to cross the street. Some of his most turbulent experiences came at the hands of the legendary Cecil B. De Mille, his father's old business partner. De Mille was a benevolent tyrant, a monster of egocentricity. Lasky became one of De Mille's top scriptwriters, and his stories of working on such De Mille epics as Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments could only be Hollywood stories. Whatever Happened to Hollywood? is much more than the history of an era. It is the rich, zestful, fast and funny personal chronicle of one man's journey through an amazing never-never land of make.believe, peopled by con men, suckers, larger than life characters, has beens and never-has-beens. It's a Hollywood script with a cast of thousands'! and it's all true! Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. lives in London with his writer wife, Pat Silver. In addition to film and TV scripts, he has written several novels. All orders shipped protected in a box. Book. Codice articolo 000925
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